TY - GEN
T1 - Pitfalls and perspectives in context-awareness
AU - Lueg, Christopher
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Despite increasing interest in context-aware artifacts we are still far from understanding the full complexity of making use of context. In this paper, we attempt to contribute to clarifying the notion of context by making an explicit distinction between context and situation which we understand as a social construct in the first place. In particular, we argue that some of the difficulties with artifacts making use of context arise because of the fundamental difference between context as a description of a situation and the situation itself: while the situation is open to (re-)negotiation, the opportunity is lost once the situation has been codified as context.
AB - Despite increasing interest in context-aware artifacts we are still far from understanding the full complexity of making use of context. In this paper, we attempt to contribute to clarifying the notion of context by making an explicit distinction between context and situation which we understand as a social construct in the first place. In particular, we argue that some of the difficulties with artifacts making use of context arise because of the fundamental difference between context as a description of a situation and the situation itself: while the situation is open to (re-)negotiation, the opportunity is lost once the situation has been codified as context.
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U2 - 10.1145/2331812.2331820
DO - 10.1145/2331812.2331820
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84877032733
SN - 0473075598
SN - 9780473075590
T3 - Proceedings - Symposium on Computer Human Interaction, CHINZ 2001
SP - 37
EP - 41
BT - Proceedings - Symposium on Computer Human Interaction, CHINZ 2001
T2 - Symposium on Computer Human Interaction, CHINZ 2001
Y2 - 6 July 2001 through 6 July 2001
ER -